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From: Kenneth
Subject: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 24 Mar 2009 00:10:00
Message: <web.49c85c8f65dd188cf50167bc0@news.povray.org>
As I get deeper into POV-Ray animation--while naturally wanting to show off my
results to the POV-Ray community--it's getting more and more difficult to
compress the file size under the 700K limit imposed at p.b.animations, without
sacrificing a great deal of the image quality. (And I'm talking about a
ten-second animation at most.) Yes, I suppose I could start a Youtube acount
and post them there (or start my own website), but I'd rather not upload my
stuff onto Youtube; and I haven't gotten around to creating my own site (am I
the only one left??)

An increase to, say, 5MB to 10 MB would allow a *much* nicer animation to be
posted, without unduly stuffing the newsgroup hard drives.

I realize there must be a reason for the limit--either due to limited hard disk
space or the bandwidth of the POV-Ray server(s)' upload/download link. If it's
just a lack of available disk space, I for one would be willing to purchase a
new drive for the newsgroups. (A genuine offer, BTW.)

Anyway, I wanted to throw this question out there to see what others might have
to say on the topic.

Ken W.


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From: Charles C
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 24 Mar 2009 01:15:01
Message: <web.49c86c017d588e14cac4259f0@news.povray.org>
"Kenneth" <kdw### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:
> Anyway, I wanted to throw this question out there to see what others might have
> to say on the topic.


I'm not sure what the situation is bandwidth-wise but I do know the system is
based on a pair of 500-gig drives backed up to the older 320.  And I have no
idea how much space all the history consumes. I'd still be willing to
contribute to upping the bandwidth if needed.  I'd like to see more animations
on here :)

See link:
http://news.povray.org/povray.general/thread/%3C4895aa69%40news.povray.org%3E/?mtop=3

Charles

PS, no you're not the only one who hasn't set up a web page and isn't keen on
posting to youtube.


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 24 Mar 2009 19:23:57
Message: <49c96b8d$1@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:
> As I get deeper into POV-Ray animation--while naturally wanting to show off my
> results to the POV-Ray community--it's getting more and more difficult to
> compress the file size under the 700K limit imposed at p.b.animations, without
> sacrificing a great deal of the image quality. (And I'm talking about a

I think we can do this, we have new hard drives (thanks to the folks who
purchased them for us, whoever you are!). I probably ought to review the limits
on everything actually.

-- Chris


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From: Kenneth
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 24 Mar 2009 23:50:01
Message: <web.49c9a8fd7d588e14f50167bc0@news.povray.org>
Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:

> I think we can do this, we have new hard drives (thanks to the folks who
> purchased them for us, whoever you are!). I probably ought to review the limits
> on everything actually.
>
> -- Chris

Many thanks for considering it!!

KW


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From: Thomas de Groot
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 25 Mar 2009 05:05:34
Message: <49c9f3de$1@news.povray.org>
"Charles C" <nomail@nomail> schreef in bericht 
news:web.49c86c017d588e14cac4259f0@news.povray.org...
> PS, no you're not the only one who hasn't set up a web page and isn't keen 
> on
> posting to youtube.

Me neither... :-)

Thomas


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From: William Tracy
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 25 Mar 2009 22:46:49
Message: <49caec99@news.povray.org>
Kenneth wrote:
> but I'd rather not upload my
> stuff onto Youtube;

I might add that Youtube re-encodes files after uploading, and video 
quality usually suffers noticeably.

Youtube is great for sharing your family outings; it sucks for showing 
the finer details of your new textures.

-- 
William Tracy
afi### [at] gmailcom -- wtr### [at] calpolyedu

[ISO 9660] Years begin to count at 1900, which means that CD-ROMs will 
suffer from a Y2156 problem because the year following 2155 will be 
1900. This problem could have been delayed by defining the origin time 
to be 1988 (the year the standard was adopted). Had that been done, the 
problem would have been postponed until 2244. Every 88 extra years helps.
     -- Andrew Tanenbaum, _Modern Operating Systems_


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From: Charles C
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 29 Mar 2009 00:50:02
Message: <web.49cefd437d588e14cac4259f0@news.povray.org>
Chris Cason <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> I think we can do this, we have new hard drives (thanks to the folks who
> purchased them for us, whoever you are!). I probably ought to review the limits
> on everything actually.

Woohoo! Thanks!
Charles


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From: Chris Cason
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 29 Mar 2009 05:29:10
Message: <49cf3f66@news.povray.org>
The limit should now be 5000k. I haven't tested it (though I am sure
someone will:)

-- Chris


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From: Stephen
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 29 Mar 2009 06:54:23
Message: <bqkus49esgnvstt911rg78mhcqoikcincm@4ax.com>
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:29:03 +1100, Chris Cason
<del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:

>The limit should now be 5000k. I haven't tested it (though I am sure
>someone will:)
>

I tried to post a 4537K file to p.b.a 

Server Povray rejected post to newsgroup p.b.a : Articles may not be lager than
1000000 bytes.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen


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From: Jim Henderson
Subject: Re: request to increase 700K limit of 'animation' postings
Date: 29 Mar 2009 14:28:58
Message: <49cfbdea$1@news.povray.org>
On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 11:54:20 +0100, Stephen wrote:

> On Sun, 29 Mar 2009 20:29:03 +1100, Chris Cason
> <del### [at] deletethistoopovrayorg> wrote:
> 
>>The limit should now be 5000k. I haven't tested it (though I am sure
>>someone will:)
>>
>>
> I tried to post a 4537K file to p.b.a
> 
> Server Povray rejected post to newsgroup p.b.a : Articles may not be
> lager than 1000000 bytes.

Remember that the server has to convert the file to uucoded text, so the 
file size on the server likely will be larger than on disk.

Jim


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